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John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection

The John Carter Brown Library's collection of books printed in Spanish America is among the finest in the world. In some areas, the collections are unmatched and include works found nowhere else. The Library has the largest collection in the world of books printed in Spanish America as a whole prior to ca. 1820, over 7,000 titles, encompassing the output of presses in Mexico, Peru, Central America, Argentina, Chile, and elsewhere. The remaining Spanish American presses represented in the JCB's collection include some of the rarest books printed in the Americas: those coming from the Jesuit missions of Paraguay in the early eighteenth century. Of the eight extant titles printed in the missions, the JCB owns six, more than any other library in the world. Of the 14 books in our Ecuador collection (as of 2012) all but two are unique copies, held nowhere else. Likewise of our collections of Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican, and Bolivian imprints, the majority can be found only at the JCB.

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Jun 28, 2017 unknown; Terán, Francisco Alonso, active 1810-1811
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At head of title: 1810
Topics: Commercial correspondence, Mines and mineral resources, Merchants, Lotteries, Hot peppers, Slave...
Signatures: [A]-H² (H2 verso blank)
Signatures: [A]-I²
Topic: Imprint 1739
Dated at the end of text: Dado en Mexico à ocho de Abril de mil setecientos setenta, y dos
Topic: Coinage
Caption title
Topics: Picaso de Ynojosa, Ysabel, active 1690, Gorraez Vaumont y Navarra, Theovaldo de, active 1690, Real...
A later octavo edition was printed in Mexico city in the same year
Topics: Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel, 1753-1811, Elegiac poetry, Mexican, Imprint 1811
Title from caption and first stanza of poem
Topics: Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Peninsular...
Signatures: [A]-L² (-L2) (L1 verso blank)
Topics: Indulgences, Imprint 1686
Title printed within ornamental woodcut border
Topics: Catholic Church, Alegato, y consulta en que se satisface haverse publicado la absolucion general,...
Signatures: A-3S² (3S² verso blank)
Topics: Great Britain. 1713 March 26, South Sea Company, Slave trade, Imprint 1724
Signatures: pi1 *-2*⁴ (-2*4) [par.]-5[par.]⁴ A-4L⁴ 4M² [par.]⁴-2[par.]⁴ (2[par.]3 verso blank, 2[par.]4 blank)
Topics: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Imprint 1731
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf Fund
Topic: Imprint 1686
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Cosme Rivera : ms. note on verso of title page; Nicolas León: information from bibliographical file
Topic: Imprint 1730
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
Jun 12, 2017 López de Sigüenza, Gabriel, active 1700
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Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Herschel V. Jones: information from bibliographical file
Topic: Imprint 1700
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: has some worming, slightly affecting text
Topic: Imprint 1691
John Carter Brown Library copy has partial trace of an unidentified book brand on top and bottom edges
Topic: Imprint 1723
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in brown morocco with cloth boards
Topic: Imprint 1688
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in red morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1689
John Carter Brown Library copy has partial trace of an unidentified book brand on top edge
Topic: Imprint 1717
John Carter Brown Library copy has partial trace of an unidentified book brand on bottom edge
Topic: Imprint 1717
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
D. Ricardo de-la-Main professor, y expositor de la musica, assi antigua, como moderna, à espenses de 30. años de continua taréa, ha descubierto prodigiosos secretos en la musica, y ha explicado sus mayores difficultades, las quales (para el provecho comum) solicíta dar à la luz publica, en dos libros, (yá promptos para la imprenta) muy necessarios para todos los que assisten en choro, assi religiosos, como religiosas. En primero es: Exposicion de la musica ecclesiastica, y alivio para subchantres. El segundo es: Exposicion de la musica antigua, y de la musica viadana, ò el arte de acompañar a lo moderno. : Dispuesto en methodo facilissimo, de tal fuerte, que todo está explicado por la mano, y adequado para la enseñanza de las niñas de la escoleta de el recogimiento voluntario de San Miguel de Bethlehem de esta ciudad de Mexico, fundada en el año de 1738. por el Ilmo. y Exc. Sr. Dr. D. Juan Antonio de Bizarron, y Eguiarreta, sie[n]do arzobispo de Mexico, y vi-rey de la Nueva-España; y para que dichos secretos, y difficultades lleguen à la noticia de los maestros en la Europa, los publíca, y los embia à Roma; à la Academia Real de Paris, à las Universidades de Mompellier, Salamanca, Alcalá, y à las cathedrales de Toledo, y Sevilla, para que los puedan juzgar, y censurar los mexores, y mas aventajados maestros; y à vista de estos indices puedan dár sus pareceres, si (dichos libros) fueren provechosos para los señores ecclesiasticos, y dignos de la imprenta; siendo el methodo tan radical, que se puede (en termino de seis meses) comprehender todo el arte de la musica, sin fatigar la memoria, y se excusa el immenso travajo de registrar tantos libros, y obras, haziendo observaciones practicas por dilatados años
Jun 12, 2017 Main, Ricardo de la, active 1747
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John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund
Topic: Imprint 1747
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in black morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1712
John Carter Brown Library copy has partial trace of an unidentified book brand on bottom edge
Topic: Imprint 1728
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: American Antiquarian Society: information from bibliographical file
Topic: Imprint 1703
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund
Topic: Imprint 1748
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf Fund
Topic: Imprint 1709
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolas León: information from bibliographical file
Topic: Imprint 1721
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in brown morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1717
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
Jun 12, 2017 Reyes Rivera, Agustín de los, -1729
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John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in light brown morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1718
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has partial trace of an unidentified book brand on bottom edge
Topic: Imprint 1717
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolas León: information from bibliographical file
Topic: Imprint 1696
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in blue morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1728
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in black morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1708
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary limp vellum
Topic: Imprint 1695
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in modern blue cloth binding
Topic: Imprint 1707
John Carter Brown Library copy has partial trace of an unidentified book brand on top edge
Topic: Installation sermons
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: portrait after t.p. wanting
Topic: Imprint 1726
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in brown morocco with wooden boards
Topic: Imprint 1726
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary limp vellum
Topic: Imprint 1702
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: text on p. 185-187 slightly affected by cropping at the top edges
Topic: Oratorians
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: title page torn with slight loss of text at the bottom of the page; p. 67-70 wanting; some worming slightly affecting text
Topic: Imprint 1729
John Carter Brown Library copy misbound: has p. [11-64], 1st count misbound after p. [2], 3rd count
Topic: Imprint 1724
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Convento de Corpus Christi (Mexico City, Mexico): ms. note on verso of the title page reads: Este libro es de el Con.to de la Senoras Descalzas de Corpus Xpti. Aplicado por N.S.P Pro[vinci]al. Another note on p. 187 reads: Este libro es de el Con. to de Corpus Xpti
Topic: Imprint 1731
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Convento Agustino de Santa Cecilia de Atlixco, Puebla: marca de fuego [CCMF, similar to BJML-1009]; Nicolas León: information from bibliographical file
Topic: Imprint 1729
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in brown morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1738
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: v.1, p. 293-294 wanting; supplied in facsimile in John Carter Brown Library bibliographical file; v.3 wanting
Topic: Imprint 1696
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: v.1, p. 293-294 wanting; supplied in facsimile in John Carter Brown Library bibliographical file; v.3 wanting
Topic: Imprint 1696
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in red morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Sermons
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf Fund
Topic: Imprint 1686
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in brown morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1690
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf Fund
Topic: Imprint 1688
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: leaf [2], 1st count, has upper right hand corner torn out, possibly to remove a ms. annotation
Topic: Imprint 1689
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Joseph Joaquín de la Parra: ms. note on t.p
Topic: Imprint 1689
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf Fund
Topic: Imprint 1688
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolas León: information from bibliographical file
Topic: Imprint 1692
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in dark blue morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1697
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
May 8, 2017 Aguilar, Luis Antonio de , active 1707
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In the John Carter Brown Library copy, line three of the first numbered leaf has a printed papel label enmendation that reads "Vn" to correct the printed error beneath it that reads "duo"
Topic: Imprint 1707
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in brown morocco on leather boards
Topic: Imprint 1699
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolas León: information from bibliographical file
Topic: Imprint 1709
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
May 8, 2017 Catholic Church. Breviary (Franciscan)
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Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: "Del uso de Jose Joaquin Pizano": ms. autograph on recto of rear flyleaf
Topic: Imprint 1787
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
May 8, 2017 Lacunza, Manuel, 1731-1801
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John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the St. Mariana Fund
Topic: Imprint 1822
John Carter Brown Library copy numbered in ms. in upper left hand corner of each leaf: 259-273
Topic: Imprint 1697
Signatures: pi1 [par.]⁴ A⁴ B² [C]² (-[C]2) ([C]1 verso blank)
Topics: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Sermons, Imprint 1691
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in red morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1686
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in modern cloth binding
Topic: Imprint 1711
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
May 8, 2017 Solchaga, Felix. fmo RIBRL
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Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Felix Solchaga: ms. note on recto of title page
Topic: Imprint 1694
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in red morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1702
John Carter Brown Library copy numbered in ms. on upper right hand corner on the recto of each leaf: 84-99
Topic: Imprint 1694
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in green moroco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1685
John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. pagination in ink on upper right hand corner of each leaf numbered 1 through 22
Topic: Imprint 1691
Signed on p. [8]: El Cantor de Anfriso
Topics: Castaños, Francisco Javier, approximately 1756-1852, Dupont de L'Etang, Pierre Antoine, comte,...
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
Apr 24, 2017 Villerías y Roelas, José Antonio de, 1695-1728; Bermúdez de Castro, Carlos, 1667-1729. Parentalis declamatio in regio luctuosissimo funere Ludovici Ferdinandi pijssimi regis Hispani huiusce nominis primi; Lanciego y Eguilaz, José de, 1655-1728. Sermon, que en las reales exeqvias del serenissimo, y potentissimo señor D. Luis Primero rey de las Españas; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RIBRL; Moral y Castillo de Altra, Juan Anselmo del. fmo RIBRL; Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878. fmo RIBRL; Convento de San Francisco de Tehuacán (Mexico) fmo RIBRL; Spanish America Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library) RPJCB
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An account of the memorial ceremonies held in Mexico City in honor of King Luis I (1707-1724), who died of smallpox just seven months after attaining the throne
Topics: Louis I, King of Spain, 1707-1724, Funeral sermons, Sermons, Spanish, Sermons, Imprint 1725
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
Apr 24, 2017 Funes, Gregorio, 1749-1829
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Volumes 1 and 2 printed in 1816; volume 3 printed in 1817
Topics: Tupac-Amaru, José Gabriel, 1742-1781, Imprint 1816, Imprint 1817
At head of title: IHS
Topics: Augustinians, Imprint 1624
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
Apr 24, 2017 Funes, Gregorio, 1749-1829
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Volumes 1 and 2 printed in 1816; volume 3 printed in 1817
Topics: Tupac-Amaru, José Gabriel, 1742-1781, Imprint 1816, Imprint 1817